When you listen to music, if you listen to music at all, do you really pay attention to the lyrics of the song? Do you understand the words of the artists? Do you notice the context in which the words are used? Most people don’t. Music is one of the most common forms of self-expression today. However, the downside to this form of communication is that most people don’t even know what they are listening to or the effect that it has on them. Many individuals put much of their critical focus on forms of music that get a bad reputation, like rap. Many rap artists include curse words or outwardly promote haram (unacceptable) activities. But few in society seem to look carefully at what are considered “appropriate” music genres like rock/pop. Pink, a very well known pop artist, has a song titled “Get This Party Started.” In the first verse she relates:

“Get this party started on a Saturday night Everybody's waiting for me to arrive Sending out the message to all of my friends We'll be looking flashy in my Mercedes Benz
I got lots of style - check my gold diamond rings I can go for miles if you know what I mean.”

This song along with most of her other recordings promotes ideas like the need for materialism while including many subliminal messages as exemplified in the line “I can go for miles.” This description actually refers to sexual activity as is obvious when watching the video or looking at this line in context to the rest of the song. Often children and teens repeat words of the entertainment artists without thinking about the direct or indirect meanings. Even adults are guilty of uttering expressions that they probably would keep to themselves if they though about what they were saying. How many babies have heard these rather violent words sung by their loving mother? “Rock-a-bye baby on a tree top, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and...

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Man-in-the-middle attack
The man-in-the-middle attack (often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, also known as a bucket brigade attack, or sometimes Janus attack) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. The attacker must be able to intercept all messages going between the two victims and inject new ones, which is straightforward in many circumstances (for example, an attacker within reception range of an unencrypted Wi-Fi wireless access point, can insert himself as a man-in-the-middle).[citation needed]
A man-in-the-middle attack can succeed only when the attacker can impersonate each endpoint to the satisfaction of the other — it is an attack on mutual authentication (or lack thereof). Most cryptographic protocols include some form of endpoint authentication specifically to prevent MITM attacks. For example, SSL can authenticate one or both parties using a mutually trusted...

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Independence
The principle of independence means that any participant can contribute completely independent of any other participant. This is also called anytime, anyplace collaboration. Participants can collaborate no matter where they are or whoever else may be posting content at that time. Generally, there is no workflow or document check-in/check-out that can bottleneck collaboration and impact the scalability required for mass collaboration. No coordination between collaborators is required.
Persistence
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Emergence
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